10/02/2007 About 30% of the 56 projects awarded grants by the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) 2007 Advanced Technology Program contain a microsystems or nanotechnology element. Small Times Howard Lovy reports.
10/02/2007 STMicroelectronics, manufacturer of MEMS devices, have introduced next-generation 'nano' three-axis linear accelerometers to meet the demand for miniaturized motion-sensing solutions in the consumer and industrial markets.
10/02/2007 October 2, 2007 - Sony Corp. and Qimonda AG say they have agreed to create a 50/50 joint venture to design high-performance, low power, embedded and customer specific DRAMs for consumer and graphic applications.
10/02/2007 October 1, 2007 - Taiwan's Mosel Vitelic Inc. has signed a five-year, $190 million deal to receive multicrystalline solar wafers from Chinese firm LDK Solar, in the Taiwan firm's first big (and public) solar-cell materials procurement deal. Deliveries are slated to start next year.
10/02/2007 October 1, 2007 - Call it a "R&D lite" strategy. Nokia Siemens Networks has signed a deal giving specific parts of R&D activities for four business lines of its service and applications business unit, including voice/multimedia, mobile Internet, and consumer/business VOIP, to an IBM subsidiary.
10/02/2007 October 1, 2007 - A group of Taiwanese petrochemical manufacturers are setting up shop in the photovoltaic industry, though most of them are choosing the JV route rather than go it alone, notes the Taiwan Economic News.
10/01/2007 Deep etching equipment is about to make a big jump in throughput. Franz Laermer of Robert Bosch GmbH, inventor of the widely used Bosch process for deep reactive ion etching, told SST partner Nikkei Microdevices how faster volume production speeds will not only bring down the costs of MEMS devices to expand their use in consumer applications and wafer-level packaging, but will also make production of 3D interconnect with through-silicon vias practical.
10/01/2007 October 1, 2007 - Korean memory chipmaker Hynix Semiconductor Inc. has licensed phase-change memory technology from Ovonyx Inc., and the firm will actively support Hynix's own internal development of PCM products, the companies announced.
10/01/2007 Tightening supplies and better pricing in NAND flash memory drove a nice spike in overall chip sales in August, according to data from the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), which showed Asia ramping up again, but the US still behind the curve.
10/01/2007 U.S. Digital, a Vancouver, Wash., company that makes MEMS-based motion control components, has released a new dual-axis absolute inclinometer.
10/01/2007 Canada's National Institute for Nanotechnology has officially opened its NINT Innovation Centre to help Canadian companies exploit the potential of nanotechnology and to foster the growth of an Edmonton, Alberta-area cluster of companies that use nanotechnology.
10/01/2007 Konarka Technologies Inc., which is developing photovoltaic material made from semiconducting polymers and nano-engineered materials, has announced it has raised $45 million in private capital financing.
10/01/2007 RASIRC, producer of steam purification equipment, reports research findings indicating that the addition of pure water vapor during formation of carbon nanotubes affects length, shape, and purity.
10/01/2007 Two recent announcements serve to illustrate the point that radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is beginning to prove a useful and valuable technology in cleanroom applications and sensor-embedded pharmaceutical manufacturing equipment.
10/01/2007 Regardless of the industry that you work in, if you have any responsibility at all for contamination control at your organization, and you can possibly be in Stuttgart, Germany from March 11-13 next year, you need to plan to attend the 2008 CleanRooms Europe Conference & Exhibition.
10/01/2007 Half the battle in maintaining necessary cleanliness levels is reducing the amount of microorganisms and particulates that are tracked into the critical environment in the first place.
10/01/2007 Rationale for non-compliance with voluntary environmental control standards requires understanding ‘best practice’ recommendations by industry experts
10/01/2007 Ultraviolet-C (UVC) technology for air purification has recently been endorsed or specified by numerous federal, state, and local government agencies such as the Government Services Administration (GSA), CDC, EPA, and FEMA, as well as industry organizations including the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) and the Illumination Engineering Society of North America.
